Every day Poets & Writers Magazine scans the headlines—from publishing reports to academic announcements to literary dispatches—for all the news that creative writers need to know. Here are today’s stories:

A professor of English in South Carolina has solved the mystery surrounding the authorship of a nineteenth century novel called The Bondwoman’s Narrative. The author is Hannah Bond, who was enslaved in North Carolina.[2] Author and historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. brought attention to the rare manuscript after purchasing it in 2001. (New York Times)

“Pattern is repetition occurring with sufficient regularity to create an expectation for it.” Poet Ellen Bryant Voigt discusses her latest collection Headwaters,[6] as well as her background in music. (Granta)